These are works that deal with uncertainty. In "Amongst Janitors," Albert Abdul-Barr Wang relates the “dull ache of complicity” that the main character, Saira, feels for having her artwork featured at a gallery that subjects its workers to awful conditions. Even after the janitors’ strike succeeds, Saira cannot help but feel skeptical: “In her chest, something loosened, not into triumph, not into righteousness, but into a thin, uneasy tenderness that felt dangerously close to hope, and she distrusted it immediately, because hope can be a narcotic too, a way of forgetting the morning after.”

― Hanwen Zhang